书目

Middlemarch (Penguin English Library)[米德尔马契]

内容简介

ThePenguinEnglishLibraryEditionofMiddlemarchbyGeorgeEliot.'ShedidnotknowthenthatitwasLovewhohadcometoherbrieflyasinadreambeforeawaking,withthehuesofmorningonhiswings-thatitwasLovetowhomshewassobbingherfarewellashisimagewasbanishedbytheblamelessrigourofirresistibleday'GeorgeEliot'smostambitiousnovelisamasterlyevocationofdiverselivesandchangingfortunesinaprovincialcommunity.PeoplingitslandscapeareDorotheaBrooke,ayoungidealistwhosesearchforintellectualfulfillmentleadsherintoadisastrousmarriagetothepedanticscholarCasaubon;thecharmingbuttactlessDrLydgate,whosemarriagetothespendthriftbeautyRosamundandpioneeringmedicalmethodsthreatentounderminehiscareer;andthereligioushypocriteBulstrode,hidingscandalouscrimesfromhispast.Astheirstoriesinterweave,GeorgeEliotcreatesarichlynuancedandmovingdrama,hailedbyVirginiaWoolfas'oneofthefewEnglishnovelswrittenforadultpeople'.ThePenguinEnglishLibrary-100editionsofthebestfictioninEnglish,fromtheeighteenthcenturyandtheveryfirstnovelstothebeginningoftheFirstWorldWar.

作者简介

MaryAnnEvans(GeorgeEliot)(1819-80)wasaphilosopher,journalistandtranslatorbeforeshebecameanovelist,herfirststoriesbeingpublishedin1856.Sheledanunconventionallife,co-editingtheliberaljournalTheWestminsterReviewforthreeyearsandlivingfortwentyyearswiththemarriedmanandphilosopherGeorgeHenryLewes.Hernovelsareamongthegreatestofthenineteenthcentury.SilasMarner,MiddlemarchandDanielDerondaarealsopublishedinthePenguinEnglishLibrary.

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